Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd best eat them afore they gits cold . ’ |
| 2 | The book has taught me where my imagery was wrong . |
| 3 | I still had a formless feeling that she understood me where my mother did not . |
| 4 | How much taller am I than him June ? |
| 5 | I , I would n't say anything because I if my mum and dad find out I 'm dead . |
| 6 | There are times when we need to ask ourselves if our use would actually justify a purchase , or might it be better to rent it ? |
| 7 | She looked at the ‘ Ego defence mechanisms ’ , that protect someone if their Id or Super-ego ask too much , and the way children will create imaginary friends to defend their Ego . |
| 8 | I 'm not the sort who can go out with someone unless my feelings were so deep that I can imagine spending my life with them , and having a child . |
| 9 | It was also argued earlier in the book that there is always some point at which customers will turn from a differentiated product to yours because your price is so much lower . |
| 10 | She felt like punishing someone because her lunch was interrupted . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , because you might not be able to control that white-hot passion of yours while your mistress is away ? |
| 12 | Besides what happens if Rocky goes and then Strach gets injured , who do we have as cover in the midfield — Hodge , he 's hardly played much first team footballer and his whilst his goal scoring skills are fine he is not in the same class as Rocky or Strachan . |
| 13 | I whether my mother could n't afford to buy me clothes to go . |
| 14 | Yer should 'ear 'er when me farvver comes 'ome pissed — sorry , I mean drunk , ’ he corrected himself . |
| 15 | We , the young graduate law-abiding wives of the thirties , cried ourselves as our babies went blue with cold … |
| 16 | At seven the next morning Delia Sutherland let the dogs outside , yelling after them so her voice might slip through the window and heavy curtains of North One . |
| 17 | It is , in effect , answerable to no-one although its members must , of course , answer to their own national governments . |
| 18 | Snotlings are an oddball troop type with more to recommend them than their profiles might suggest . |
| 19 | In Britain today the majority of people have more options open to them than their forebears had . |
| 20 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 21 | Yes , I mean I do n't think there 's a problem about opening it up to them except their meetings traditionally are in the early morning |
| 22 | They had been Promotionaries , on their respective sides of the Wars ( which were not , of course , between Good and Evil at all , as non-combatants of every species always assumed , but between Banality and Interest ) , with great things expected of them once their training and indoctrination was completed ; but they had each done something silly , something which called into question their very suitability for exalted rank , and now they were here , in the castle , with a problem to solve and games to play , being given one last chance ; a long shot , an unlikely appeal procedure . |
| 23 | Ger'off ! ) and the thought of returning to them once my Fiesta contract finished filled me with dread . |
| 24 | This might work better for me than his lying in a darkened room , which was what he really needed to do . |
| 25 | ‘ Right from the beginning I 'd felt it was more important to have a woman with me than my partner . |
| 26 | Eton , however , meant far more to me than my relationships with others , or the learning I acquired or the games I played . |
| 27 | We can not in justice omit to mention the establishing of the Publick Botanick Garden at Chelsea by the Worshipful Company of the Apothecaries of London , not only for the instruction of such as should be employed in the compounding of medicines , in the particular simples therein used ( which alone is a very laudable design ) but also for introducing still a greater variety of trees and plants , which although their virtues or uses are not at present known , yet may hereinafter be found of excellent use for many purposes in life . |
| 28 | At about this point Philip and his advisers decided that the best way to preserve the crown for Frederick — in view of the failure of the regency council to control the princes — was for Philip to take it himself until his nephew came of age . |
| 29 | An atavism is a throwback , a ‘ primitive ’ reaction ( it literally means ‘ great-grandfather 's grandfather ’ ) — something the writer must know about in himself if his work is to resonate in his readers . |
| 30 | The gunman holding children hostage at a school in Paris has broken off negotiations with a threat that he 'll kill them and himself if his demand for twelve million pounds is not met . |